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1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Julian calendar, the 1909th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 909th year of the 2nd millennium, the 9th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1900s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1909 is 13 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.
Events
January–February
March–April
Main articles:
March 1909 and
April 1909
- March 10 – The Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 is signed in Bangkok.
- March 18 – Einar Dessau uses a shortwave radio transmitter, becoming the first radio broadcaster.
- March 21 – The remains of the Báb are placed in the Bahá'í Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa, at this time within the Ottoman Empire.
- March 31 – Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- April 4 – The association football team Sport Club Internacional is founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
- April 6 – Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and four Inuit explorers, Ootah, Ooqueah, Seegloo, and Egigingwah, come within a few miles of the North Pole.[3]
- April 11 – The city of Tel Aviv (known in its first year as Ahuzat Bayit) is founded by the Jewish community on the outskirts of Jaffa.
- April 13 (March 31 by Eastern reckoning) – Ottoman countercoup begins in the Ottoman Empire.
- April 14 – Adana massacre: Ottoman Turks kill 15,000–30,000 Armenian Christians in the Adana Vilayet.
- April 18 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
- April 19 – The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, modern-day BP, is incorporated.
- April 27 – Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown and succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V. He is sent to the Ottoman port city of Thessaloniki (Selanik) the next day.
May–June
Main articles:
May 1909 and
June 1909July–August
Main articles:
July 1909 and
August 1909September–October
November–December
Undated
Births
January
- January 1
- January 2 – Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
- January 3 – Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d. 2000)
- January 4 – J. R. Simplot, American businessman (d. 2008)
- January 5 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994)
- January 8 – Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
- January 9 – Anthony Mamo, Maltese President (d. 2008)
- January 13 – Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist convicted of setting fire to the German Reichstag building in 1933 (d. 1934)
- January 15
- January 16 – Clement Greenberg, American art critic (d. 1994)
- January 19 – Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
- January 21 – Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (d. 2004)
- January 22
- January 24 – Martin Lings, British Islamic scholar (d. 2005)
- January 28 – Colin Munro MacLeod, Canadian-American geneticist and medical researcher (d. 1972)
- January 30 – Saul Alinsky, American community organizer (d. 1972)
February
- February 1 – George Beverly Shea, American gospel singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
- February 3 – Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943)
- February 7
- February 9
- February 11
- February 12 – Zoran Mušič, Slovene painter (d. 2005)
- February 15
- February 16 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (d. 1982)
- February 18 – Wallace Stegner, American writer (d. 1993)
- February 19 – Enrico Donati, Italian-born American painter (d. 2008)
- February 20 – Heinz Erhardt, German comedian, musician, entertainer, actor, and poet (d. 1979)
- February 21 – Hans Erni, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 2015)
- February 22 – Edmund Berkeley, American scientist (d. 1988)
- February 24 – August Derleth, American writer (d. 1971)
- February 26 – King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
- February 28 – Stephen Spender, English writer (d. 1995)
March
April
May
- May 1 – Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet and activist (d. 1990)
- May 4 – Howard Da Silva, American actor (d. 1986)
- May 6 – Loyd Sigmon, American amateur radio broadcaster (d. 2004)
- May 7 – Edwin H. Land, American camera inventor (d. 1991)
- May 10 – Maybelle Carter, American musician (d. 1978)
- May 15
- May 17 – Karl Schäfer, Austrian figure skater (d. 1976)
- May 18 – Fred Perry, English tennis player (d. 1995)
- May 19 – Nicholas Winton, British humanitarian (d. 2015)
- May 23 – Hugh E. Blair, American linguist (d. 1967)
- May 24 – Victoria Hopper, Canadian stage and film actress and singer (d. 2007)
- May 26 – Matt Busby, Scottish football manager (d. 1994)
- May 27
- May 30 – Benny Goodman, American musician (d. 1986)
June
- June 1 – Yechezkel Kutscher, Slovakian-born Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist (d. 1971)
- June 3 – Ira D. Wallach, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2007)
- June 6 – Isaiah Berlin, Russian historian of ideas (d. 1997)
- June 7 – Jessica Tandy, English actress (d. 1994)
- June 12 – Archie Bleyer, American song arranger & band leader (d. 1989)
- June 14 – Burl Ives, American singer (d. 1995)
- June 19 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese novelist (d. 1948)
- June 20 – Errol Flynn, Australian-born actor (d. 1959)
- June 23 – Li Xiannian, President of the People's Republic of China (d. 1992)
- June 24 – William Penney, Baron Penney, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1991)
- June 26
July
August
September
- September 1 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
- September 7 – Elia Kazan, Turkish-born film director (d. 2003)
- September 10 – Irakli Abashidze, Georgian poet, literary scholar, and politician (d. 1992)
- September 14
- Peter Scott, British ornithologist and painter (d. 1989)
- Andreas Tzimas, Greek communist politician and Resistance leader (d. 1972)
- September 15
- September 19 – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian auto designer and businessman (d. 1998)
- September 21 – Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician (d. 1972)
- September 24 – Carl Sigman, American songwriter (d. 2000)
- September 26 – Bill France, Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (d. 1992)
- September 28 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
October
- October 1 – Everett Sloane, American actor (d. 1965)
- October 4 – Murray Chotiner, American political consultant (d. 1974)
- October 10 – Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director (d. 2010)
- October 13 – Herblock, American editorial cartoonist (d. 2001)
- October 14 – Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (d. 1938)
- October 17 – Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (d. 1981)
- October 18 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher of law and political sciences (d. 2004)
- October 20 – Carla Laemmle, American actress (d. 2014)
- October 24 – Bill Carr, American athlete (d. 1966)
- October 27 – Henry Townsend, American musician (d. 2006)
- October 28 – Francis Bacon, Irish painter (d. 1992)
November
December
- December 2 – Marion Dönhoff, German journalist (d. 2002)
- December 4 – Jimmy Jewel, English actor (d. 1995)
- December 7 – Arch Oboler, American actor, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, and director (d. 1987)
- December 9 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor and Naval officer (d. 2000)
- December 14 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- December 20
- December 21 – Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (d. 1992)
- December 22
- December 27 – Henryk Jabłoński, President of Poland (d. 2003)
Deaths
January–June
- January 8 – Harry Seeley, British palaeontologist (b. 1839)
- January 10 – Charles Vernon Culver, American politician (b. 1830)
- January 12 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)
- January 14
- January 15 – Saint Arnold Janssen, German Catholic priest (b. 1837)
- January 27 – Benoît-Constant Coquelin, French theatrical actor (b. 1841)
- February 5 – Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, French occultist (b. 1842)
- February 8 – Catulle Mendès, French poet (b. 1841)
- February 17 – Geronimo, Apache leader (b. 1829)
- February 20 – Paul Ranson, French painter (b. 1864)
- February 26 – Caran d'Ache, French political cartoonist (b. 1858)
- March 6 – Gustaf af Geijerstam, Swedish novelist (b. 1858)
- March 16 – Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton, chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal (b. 1832)
- March 24 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871)
- March 25 – Ruperto Chapí, Spanish composer (b. 1854)
- April 3 – Pascual Cervera y Topete, Spanish admiral (b. 1839)
- April 8 – Helena Modjeska, Polish actress (b. 1840)
- April 10 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (b. 1837)
- April 14 – Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman, 10th President of Argentina (b. 1844)
- April 28 – Frederick Holbrook, Vermont governor (b. 1813)
- May 10 – Futabatei Shimei, Japanese author and translator (b. 1864)
- May 12 – Hugh Henry Gough, British general and Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1833)
- May 17 – Helge Alexander Haugan, American banking executive (b. 1847)
- May 18
- June 14 – Afonso Pena, 6th President of Brazil (b. 1847)
- June 24 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
July–December
- July 8 – Gaston Alexandre Auguste, Marquis de Galliffet, French general (b. 1830)
- July 9 – Kasimir Felix Graf von Badeni, 13th Minister-President of Cisleithania (b. 1846)
- July 11 – Simon Newcomb Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
- July 18 – Carlos, Duke of Madrid (b. 1848)
- July 19 – Arai Ikunosuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1836)
- July 22 – Detlev von Liliencron, German poet (b. 1844)
- August 5 – Miguel Antonio Caro, Colombian political leader (b. 1843)
- August 8 – Mary MacKillop, Australian saint (b. 1842)
- August 14 – William Stanley, inventor and engineer (b. 1829)
- August 15 – Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian author (b. 1866)
- August 27 – Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)
- September 2 – Louis Delacenserie, Belgian architect (b. 1838)
- September 4 – Clyde Fitch, American dramatist (b. 1865)
- September 7 – Eugène Lefebvre, pioneer French aviator (b. 1878)
- September 22 – Captain Ferdinand Ferber, French Army officer and pioneer aviator (b. 1862)
- September 27 – Gyula Donáth, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1850)
- September 29 – Vladimir Vidrić, Croatian poet (b. 1875)
- October 13 – Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish anarchist (executed) (b. 1859)
- October 19 – Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician (b. 1835)
- October 26 – Itō Hirobumi, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1841)
- November 9 – William Powell Frith, English painter (b. 1819)
- November 18 – Renée Vivien Scottish/American poet (b. 1877)
- December 10 – Red Cloud, Sioux warrior (b. 1822)
- December 14 – Agustí Querol Subirats, Spanish sculptor (b. 1860)
- December 15 – Francisco Tárrega, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1852)
- December 17 – King Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
- December 16 – Lina Morgenstern, German writer, educator, feminist and pacifist (b. 1830)
- December 18 – Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich, Russian royal (b. 1832)
- December 26 – Frederic Remington, American cowboy artist and sculptor (b. 1864)
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